Re: Quarter Final Aftermath : Sun May 13, 2012 4:27 am  

BackrowSaint wrote:

Yeah, that's what I was attempting to say. If other teams had structures that were as good as Wigans but suited to their players then some teams would be an awful lot better. If that makes any sense at all?

it does actaully and well done for admitting your not far superior in every way. And i am not trying to writte your team off you do have a very talented backline and when coached right will play some fantastic rugby but player for player RIGHT NOW you aren't as good as wigan and i would argue the same case for most other teams. its hardly a bad thing really its not as if wigan are a terrible team.

Re: Quarter Final Aftermath : Sun May 13, 2012 7:00 am  

Tiptop Saint wrote:

:FRUSRATED: He's correctly making the point that Gaskell should be our 1st choice at 6!! Why the coaching team at Saints can't see what everyone else can is beyond me.

I think that although Mike Rush has done a great job with junior development over the years, i don't think he has the nads to drop highly paid overseas players, hope that i am wrong and Gaskell is back in soon.

Re: Quarter Final Aftermath : Sun May 13, 2012 7:15 am  

Where was Saint's kicking game yesterday? Power play after power play.

Re: Quarter Final Aftermath : Sun May 13, 2012 7:26 am  

Northampton_Saint wrote:

To make it simple for you I'll state it again - Our players are underperforming because they have been poorly coached for a long time and our tactics are predictable and one-dimensional. Our players are of a generally higher natural standard and of a greater level of talent than yours. Stick a quality coach in charge of our current squad for a few months and things would be rather different. If roles had been reversed and you'd had Royce instead of Maggie the last couple of years you'd have done well to make top 4 and wouldn't have had a sniff of any trophies. Warrington (by some distance) and Saints/Leeds (rather more marginally) have better squads than you do at the moment, but none of them have done as good a job of sow's ear maximisation as you have the last couple of years. Depressingly.

Do you actually believe the poop that you post on this forum? Being well coached is one thing, having the players to execute it is another.

Re: Quarter Final Aftermath : Sun May 13, 2012 8:54 am  

The Eclipse wrote:

I think that although Mike Rush has done a great job with junior development over the years, i don't think he has the nads to drop highly paid overseas players, hope that i am wrong and Gaskell is back in soon.

we are playing no better now than when Simmons was in charge.Totally clueless in attack.That brief spell after Simmons was sacked lulled us into thinking that Rush could do a decent job-how wrong we were.

Re: Quarter Final Aftermath : Sun May 13, 2012 9:09 am  

Saint from Prestwich wrote:

we are playing no better now than when Simmons was in charge.Totally clueless in attack.That brief spell after Simmons was sacked lulled us into thinking that Rush could do a decent job-how wrong we were.

To be fair he's not a first team coach and openly admits that. His boss has asked in to do a job until the end of the season and he's doing it to the best of his ability. He's never claimed to be a coach and neither as KC.

We are in a much better postion than we was under Simmons. I don't think we are top 4 team under the current set up as I don't think we can beat the likes of Wigan but I didn't think we was a top eight team under Simmons.

We've just got to stick at it this year and hope we get lucky, I can't see us making any impact on the Play offs but you never know.

While the season has been a shocker, we are still only 4/5 points off the to of the league which is amazing as we've been bad.

Just need to roll our sleaves up, keep working hard and hope brown makes the difference.

Re: Quarter Final Aftermath : Sun May 13, 2012 9:13 am  

goobervision wrote:

Where was Saint's kicking game yesterday?

We haven't really got one.

Re: Quarter Final Aftermath : Sun May 13, 2012 9:36 am  

Blobbynator wrote:

We haven't really got one.

You scored a try off a kick and forced two (or three) goal line drop outs.

Re: Quarter Final Aftermath : Sun May 13, 2012 9:40 am  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

You scored a try off a kick and forced two (or three) goal line drop outs.

It's not really consistent though, there's no real organisation on the 5th tackle at times hence why we got caught on the powerplay or put in poor kicks on several ocassions.

Re: Quarter Final Aftermath : Sun May 13, 2012 10:00 am  

It's interesting that the current infestation of self-proclaimed unbiased Wigan fans falling over themselves to assure complete dominance in every position on the park are strangely oblivious to the narrow difference in final score - on home turf.

I mean, the Harlem Globetrotters weren't regarded as the greatest showmen on earth because they scrapped out two score victories whilst coughing up possession like an end-stage TB sufferer hacking up blood.